Merchants who illegally hawk endangered wildlife have begun using blogs to promote their business to tech-savvy customers in Malaysia.

Australia will not send a fisheries patrol ship this year to shadow Japanese whalers and protests near Antarctica, the government said.

Environmentalists and conservationists may find hard to digest the forest department’s decision not to release a new set of gharial (alligators) population into the river Chambal, the safest haven for the endangered reptile.

The population of house sparrows in Britain has fallen nearly 70% in the last 30 years as a trend for paving over gardens and removing trees has left too few insects for them to eat.

Canada's new fisheries minister said that she expects next year's commercial seal hunt will proceed as usual, despite a EU proposal that threatens to ban seal products as early as 2009.

A forest guard was killed when he was attacked by a rhino in the Kaziranga National Park in Upper Assam, a senior forest official said on Thursday.

Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive in the Balkan country.

Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival.

Indian botanist and wildlife scientist, Aparajita Datta, has been selected for the 2009 Women of Discovery Awards along with four other eminent women from different parts of the world.